Mist - 🥩 🥚 Gold & Silver

@baoshaoshan @policytensor The myth, folded flag, presented as a symbol of honor, gratitude, for service and sacrifice. Reality, flags in bags mass produced commodity.

@policytensor Prepare the bags, boxes and flags.

What is diff is Vietnam had 10 million men of military age, Iran has 40 million. And they have undergone at least some military training in the compulsory 21 month military service.

@PaganTech @JMGreerWriter Shortage of fertilizer +/or much higher prices. Result food shortages and much higher prices. This will affect poor countries in Africa.

@Mist671 @JMGreerWriter Why famine in Africa?

I think Trump’s handlers and the Israelis both believed that the Iranian regime was much more fragile than it has turned out to be, and thought that a decapitation strike would result in a popular uprising and the end of the mullahocracy. They gambled on that, and lost. Now the Israelis are simply trying to weaken Iran as much as possible, while Trump is looking for an offramp that will let him claim victory and get out. Since the US gets next to no oil from the Persian Gulf, he’s also hoping to unload some of the costs of defending the Gulf states onto Europe. We’ll see how it plays out.

@DanCollins2011 @elonmusk @BrianRoemmele @pmarca True but with no vocation or other purpose people don't do so well. How many deaths of despair have there been in the last 20 years 1 million, more?

@elonmusk @BrianRoemmele @pmarca Kind of already is. Half the West is on some form of Gov Benefit

AI employment doomerism is rooted in the socialist fallacy of lump of labor. It is wrong now for the same reason it’s always been wrong. More people really should try to learn about this. The AI will teach you about it if you ask! (Hinton is a socialist. youtube.com/shorts/R-b8RR6…)

@RazorOil Easy, Canada is a resource colony for the benifit of 🇺🇸.

How come the Saudis maintain a pipeline operating at partial capacity ( currently full at 7mm bbl/d) as a strategic backup for contingencies, yet Canada can't even approve the construction of a new one that would take years to build, and in a weird way with a prerequisite for current pipelines to be running at full capacity at all times especially with WCS discounting…it doesn’t make sense. Let’s build !! 🇨🇦🫡🪒

@KEriksenV2 Good. Despite decades of poor governance Canada can be a great place to live. 🍻

I think I’m done with posting about how dark things are in Canada and why…all the time. Time for a new approach to how I use my time.

@Zebra12991210 MAGA was just a catchy campaign slogan. DJT v2 morphed into a typical swamp creature with one concern, self-enrichment.

I will lose followers with this post. Trump is out of control. The economy is crashing. He acts like a clown. Why are we at war? I am still MAGA. President Trump no longer is

@FlyEaglesFly529 Sadly it won't happen. Trump was courageous during the campaign standing up to criminal charges and multiple attempts on his life. Strange how he just crumpled once back in office.

Trump needs to pivot quickly to stem the damage but it can be done End this war Prosecute Epstein/CV/Govt $ criminals Stop poisoning the skies Get SAVE passed In other words get back to Making AMERICA Great Again You know, what he ran on and promised

@_The_Prophet__ Trump has betrayed millions who voted for his no new wars pledge. His high stakes gamble is poised to send the globe in to a depression and a large part into famine.

⚡️He is telling Iran the negotiation is ornamental and the punishment architecture is already built. That is what “3,554 targets left” means. He is no longer speaking like someone trying to create uncertainty about whether escalation might happen. He is speaking like someone trying to make escalation feel preloaded, cataloged, and industrial. That number matters because it turns war from an event into an inventory. It tells Tehran that this is not some emotional burst that can be waited out. It is a queue. He is trying to break the regime’s time horizon. He wants every Iranian decision-maker hearing that line to think the same thought: we are not negotiating over whether more pain comes. We are negotiating over how much of it lands before we give in. That is psychological warfare aimed at the chain of command, the bureaucracy, the military, and the elites around them. It is meant to dissolve hope. People do not talk like that when they think the battlefield is slipping. They talk like that when they think they have sequencing, tempo, and escalation dominance. He is saying the machine is bigger than the current phase and can keep going far past this moment. That is power language, but it is also overmatch theater. He wants Iran to feel crushed before he has to fully prove it. My real take is that this is surrender-forcing rhetoric, not ordinary bargaining. He is offering a deal with one hand and waving a spreadsheet of destruction with the other. That means he thinks the war ends through submission, not through compromise between equals.

@ProfessorPape @benshapiro @megynkelly Ben is the last person to ask. No objectivity from him despite what appears to be a rational approach in dialogue.

This is now the central question in the Iran war: Can the U.S. actually win a long war against a determined adversary—or does escalation lead to another Vietnam? The last time: ~58,000 American dead. What is different this time? @benshapiro @megynkelly

@RenzTom Benjamin Netanyahu is bad for Isreal is a similar way GWB and DJT are bad for the USA. Bibi has made the future for Isreal very difficult.

‼️If you support Benjamin Netanyahu you might be an anti-Semite. - He funded terrorist Hamas (with American tax money) while they committed acts of terror. - He experimented on the Jewish people without informed consent by using every legal means of coercion available to force the experimental mRNA COVID jabs. - He ignored intel on October 7 attack and likely issued a stand down order allowing the attacks to do maximum damage. It’s interesting to see people support this monster while accusing others of being exactly what they appear to be.

@RaniaKhalek Decades of conditioning is difficult to overcome. 😔

The Israelis are psychotically murdering Lebanese journalists and bragging about it. wtf is wrong with the world to keep allowing this to happen? Shame shame shame

@JMGreerWriter The EU is cooked. They have poor relations with the three great powers, and growing internal conflicts.

For the EU, going to Russia hat in hand and asking to buy oil and gas would require giving up their fantasies of renewed European world dominion, and I think they’d sooner cut their own throats with a dull saw than do that. This fantasy runs very deep in Brussels these days, and for good reason: the alternative is for Europe to turn into the impoverished backwater it was six centuries ago.

@StaffanReveman Re How do you run an industrial economy ... You don't. Morgenthau plan 80 years later. Germany is done.

Over the past 25 years, Germany has pursued an energy transition by phasing out nuclear power and expanding solar and wind—at a cost of around €500 billion in subsidies. The result: installed capacity has more than doubled, yet electricity generation has declined. The reason is structural. Reliable, dispatchable power was replaced by weather-dependent sources. The consequences are severe: rising energy costs, falling competitiveness, and growing pressure on energy-intensive industries. The key question remains: How do you run an industrial economy on a system that produces less when it matters most?

@Martyupnorth What the point of this. They all have problems. Focus on improving Canada.

Other the North Korea, the most obvious one, when you think of human rights abuses, which country comes to mind most often?

@DanCollins2011 Thanks Dan. Always appreciate your candor. Events shaping up to be worse than the COVID-19 response.

Start thinking how to secure calories and hydro carbons for your family. The Epstein class is about to usher about 1/3 of us off the planet.

@thucduyen16 @DanCollins2011 Buy some SPAM. It might save your life. In an emergency meat is the best food.

@DanCollins2011 I bought a big bag of 10 kg of rice. I may need to buy more. We don’t eat meat a lot but veggies & tofus so fingers crossed.

@TFL1728 Keep doubling down. The 🇺🇸 defeat shaping up is already epic. 😔

Another love letter to the one plane that makes all the difference here. And why in the end, imagine what this plane modernized can do. This article should give everyone who thinks the IRGC has a chance to do anything other than retreat or collapse.

@jacksonhinklle Correction. The U.S. needs a new ideology so high-intensity war against China doesn't happen.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: "The U.S. Ammo Shortage Is Worse Than You Think," says Wall Street Journal article. "The conflict with Iran is an urgent reminder that the U.S. needs a defense industrial base that can wage a high-intensity war against American adversaries—especially China."

@calvinfroedge Thanks for the recommendation, just got the audio book from my library. 🍻

Before having a conversation with an industrial logistics expert on the Strait of Hormuz closure, please read this book